The Oakland school district’s office of African American Male Achievement is co-hosting a day long conference with America’s Promise Alliance on how to bring up the graduation rate of young boys of color at Laney College on Saturday.

The conference from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. will feature Tyrone Howard, associate professor of Urban Schooling at the Graduate School of Education at UCLA, Democrat Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Oakland’s new schools Superintendent Antwan Wilson, the executive director of the district’s African American Male Achievement office, Christopher Chatmon, AT&T California President Ken McNeely and others.

Almost a year after a boy was captured on video being violently flung from a Dublin water slide, the city has announced the ride will reopen this weekend after state investigators finalized their investigation into the cause.

An new undercover video released this week by a California animal welfare group showing fishermen beating a shark with a baseball bat, hauling in dolphins and sea lions, and cutting the fins off live sharks has increased calls for Congress and California lawmakers to ban on drift gill nets.